... engineers set in their ways find new tool not all that useful for themselves.

Later, we explain why 8-core CPUs are stupid because you can't use them as protection against ballistas.

Fuck yeah joe, I mean, Wordstar.

(I used "joe" instead of vi, emacs, or pico for years and years on Linux)

Wait, that's all I have to do to regain my status as a colonial power?

I never knew it would be so easy.

I did not state that many people make the "rockstar" salary. That was the poster I was responding to.

In the US, the majority of "independent" arts who make middle-class, stable incomes are folks who compose for TV/movies and contribute to music libraries.

Making money as a performing artist is very difficult, not the least reason of which is that in the US touring rock acts (regional bands, for example, which 3-4 decades ago could make a hard but respectable living touring around their region) haven't gotten a pay raise in 40 years (that is, the per-man take for a night is about the same as it was in the 1970's -- a regional touring band, assuming it can find regular venues -- which is difficult -- can expect to make 125$ per man, per night, before expenses). The only local/regional "music" occupation that can play regularly and make a decent per-man income is that of a DJ.